The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

A research team used state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning technology to reconstruct the bird’s skull and brain in remarkable ...

Scientists uncovered the ancient brain structure of an 80-million-year-old fossil bird named Navaornis hestiae, providing ...

The Navaornis discovery filled in a gap of 70 million years in the understanding of the evolution ... of early birds - those ...

The “one-of-a-kind” fossil of Navaornis hestiae helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains ...

In the sunbaked Galápagos Islands, a male finch perches on a branch, hearing what sounds like another bird’s song. But ...

and Evolution in Hawai’i,” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19 in Fleischmann Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

After Donald Trump’s election, many wildlands advocates have become depressed and disheartened and feel that conservation ...

Black discusses how early birds took to swallowing seeds whole after losing their teeth, helping plants spread farther than ...